All Readings from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. on the First Thursday of the Month
Admission Free • Morrison Library in Doe Library • UC Berkeley
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Series Kick-Off, 09.07.06 |
Michael Palmer , 10.05.06 |
Will Alexander, 11.02.06
Jack Marshall, 12.07.06 |
Dunya Mikhail, 02.01.07 | Special Reading , 02.12.07
Myung Mi Kim, 03.01.07 | Joanne Kyger, 04.05.07 | Student Reading, 05.03.07
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September 7, 2006
SERIES KICK-OFF
Distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines read and discuss a favorite poem. This year’s participants: Ani Adhikari (Statistics), Mary Catherine Birgeneau, Patrick Dillon (California Magazine), Janette Hernandez (Education), Davitt Moroney (Music), Charlotte Rubens (Library), Jonathan Poullard (Dean of Students), Harsha Ram (Slavic Languages and Literature), and Clare You (Korean Sudies).
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October 5, 2006
[LES MURRAY - cancelled]MICHAEL PALMER
The recent recipient of the prestigious Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens award for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry," Michael Palmer is regarded as "one of America's most important poets" by Harvard Review. The voice in his poems shifts between one of passive observation and active resistance, graceful and startling in its lyricism and quiet protest. A crucial figure in international poetic dialogue, Palmer has translated into English from Portuguese, Russian, and French, and has had his collections translated into over 25 languages. The author of ten volumes of poetry, most recently Company of Moths, Palmer frequently collaborates with visual artists and composers, including painter Gerard Richter and the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. Born in Manhattan, Palmer has lived in San Francisco since 1969, and is currently serving as the Poet in Residence at St. Mary's College. Watch the complete webcast
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November 2, 2006
WILL ALEXANDER
Will Alexander has created a contemporary alchemy of surrealist vision in his own electric incandescent language. Coined the Césaire of America, his poetry is full of imagistic and intelligent unraveling. Charles Bernstein calls his latest collection, Exobiology as Goddess, “an exuberant excursion into the hyperreality of the cosmos.” A poet, novelist, essayist, and educator, Alexander lives in Los Angeles. Watch the complete webcast
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December 7, 2006
JACK MARSHALL
Born in Brooklyn to an Iraqi father and a Syrian mother, Jack Marshall explores the cultures and cities that shaped his artistic awakening. He is the author of Gorgeous Chaos: New and Selected Poems 1965-2001; Sesame (1993), winner of the PEN West Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and From Baghdad to Brooklyn (2005). He resides in the Bay Area.Naomi Schwartz photo
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February 1, 2007
DUNYA MIKHAIL
Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail immigrated to the United States in 1996 after increasing harassment over her poetry, which confronts war and exile with subversive depictions of suffering. In 2001 she was awarded the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. The War Works Hard, won PEN’s Award for Poetry in Translation and was selected as one of New York Public Library’s twenty five best books of 2005. Watch the complete webcast
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February 12, 2007
The Poetry of César Vallejo
Vallejo's poetry takes the Spanish language to an unprecedented level of emotional rawness and stretches its grammatical possibilities. Striking against theology with the very rhetoric of the Christian faith, Vallejo's is a tragic vision: perhaps the only one in the canon of Spanish-language literature in which salvation and sin are one and the same. This edition includes notes on the translation and a fascinating translation memoir that traces Eshleman's long relationship with Vallejo's poetry. An introduction and chronology provide further insights into Vallejo's life and work. Poet, editor, and translator Clayton Eshelman is a recipient of the National Book Award and the Landon Translation Prize, and the cotranslator of César Vallejo: The Complete Posthumous Poetry and Aimé Césaire: The Collected Poetry, both from UC Press. For this special reading he will read from and discuss The Complete Poems recently published from UC Press. Please note: This reading will take place Monday, February 12th at 4pm in the Graduate Student Lounge, Wheeler Hall 330.
March 1, 2007
MYUNG MI KIM
Born in Seoul, Korea, Myung Mi Kim travels to the root of language, connecting speech and culture in a rich web of immaculate phrases. Kim strips words to the bone, using fragments and white space to enhance her themes of dislocation and first language loss. She is the author of four books of poetry, including Under Flag, winner of the 1991 Multicultural Publishers Book Award, and Commons (2002).
April 5, 2007
JOANNE KYGER
A prominent figure in California’s poetry scene for decades, Joanne Kyger writes poetry influenced by her practice of Zen Buddhism and her ties to the poets of Black Mountain, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Beat Generation. Her latest collection, About Now: Collected Poems is forthcoming from National Poetry Foundation. She frequently teaches at New College and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Watch the complete webcast or listen to podcast
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May 3, 2007
STUDENT READING
One of the year’s most lively events, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets, Cook, Rosenberg, and Yang, students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty, Lunch Poems volunteers, and representatives from student publications.
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Support for this series is provided by Mrs. William Main, the Library, The Morrison Library Fund, the dean’s office of the College of Letters and Sciences, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities. These events are also partially supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.